Persistence of structure over fluctuations in biological electron-transfer reactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Balabin, Ilya A ^a   Beratan, David N ^a   Skourtis, Spiros S ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; PROTEIN FOLDING; RATE CONSTANTS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

BIOMOLECULAR; ELECTRON TRANSFERS; ELECTRONIC COUPLINGS; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; KEY DETERMINANTS; MATRIX ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRANSFER REACTIONS; TUNNELING MATRIX ELEMENTS; TUNNELING MECHANISMS; WASH OUTS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 54049095896     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.158102     Document Type: Article

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